Each year, lyrikline comes up with something special to celebrate UNESCO’s World Poetry Day.
Around the globe poetry readings are organised on that day. Our idea this year was to collect video clips of great poets which can’t be experienced on stage anymore.
From tomorrow, we present a different clip on our lyrikline blog every day with historical footage of a poet you may not have heard or seen reading and performing before.

On World Poetry Day itself (March 21) we will welcome nine new international poets on lyrikline!
In recent years our World Poetry Day topics were e.g. poetry and film, poetry translation, poet’s understanding of poetry, and last year we presented a serial of the places where poets write.
(see them all hereworld-poetry-day)

In 2012 the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival invited film makers from all over the world to make film interpretations of the poem [meine heimat] by Ulrike Almut Sandig. 33 film makers from thirteen countries followed the call. Thirteen of the films have been selected and presented in the programme [meine heimat] one poem – many films. The directors of the three best films, Rainer Komers (film maker, writer, Mühlheim / Ruhr and Berlin), Lisi Prada (film maker, Madrid) and Johanna Wagner (film maker, Motala, Sweden; Edinburgh, Berlin), introduced their works on the stage, talked about how they approached working on the project and gave insights into the various ways a poem can be approached in film. Ulrike Almut Sandig has read from her books.

The closing date for entries for all the Competitions is 25 April 2014. You can find the full conditions of entry and the entry form here >>.

All films submitted are automatically considered for all selection processes!

The 7th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is taking place from 16th–19th October 2014.

Deadline: 25 April 2014

The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is a project of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin in cooperation with interfilm Berlin and with the kind support of the Capital City Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfonds), the Goethe Institut, the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) and Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG. It takes place as part of the poesiefestival berlin.